The AM Roundup: A Government Dragnet, Challenging Right to Work

Privacy: New rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to examine the government files of U.S. citizens for possible criminal behavior, even if there is no reason to suspect them. Through Freedom of Information Act requests and interviews with officials at numerous agencies, The Wall Street Journal has reconstructed the internal clash over the rules, which one Homeland Security official described as a “sea change in the way that the government interacts with the general public.”

Right to work:Unions looking to challenge Michigan’s new right-to-work law in court likely have only a handful of narrow paths to choose from, say labor lawyers. . . .

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